Month: June 2018

Day 45 Last night when I got back to my tent, one of my shoes from the first pair were missing. They had been sitting outside the tent, and it seemed nowhere to be found in the dark. On the other hand I found another shoe under a nearby tree Read more…

Day 44 [there will be some irregularities in the posting due to an extended stay in the Sierras, but it will all get there eventually. Also, I have added the missing images.] If you have been reading the blog you probably already know most of the deal of a zero Read more…

Day 43 Today, I was off to a rough start as I woke up to serious pains in the right side of my hip whenever I moved. I had had this in a much, much lesser degree in the beginning of days since Tehachapi. One would think it would be Read more…

Day 42 As usual I got up early to beat the heat. Today I was hiking by 3:30 am after way too little sleep. I started noticing that the landscape was changing as there came more and more exposed rocks signifying that we were near the Sierras. At around eleven Read more…

Day 41 As mentioned before you can only get to the trail three times a week by bus here from Ridgecrest, so instead of having to take two zeros and wait until Wednesday to get back to the trail I did what in hiking terminology would be called a “nero”, Read more…

Day 40 The weather forecast predicted even higher temperatures for today so it probably wouldn’t surprise readers of the blog that I was up early today as well. Woke up at 2:30 am an slowly start packing and was walking by 4 am. All the aches of yesterday had magically Read more…

Day 39 I had a long stretch without reliable water sources ahead of me today as mentioned in the post preceding this one. Thus, at four am I was already walking, but even then you could sense that it was going to be a very warm day. There were hardly Read more…

Day 38 Had a bit of a difficult sleep due to the intense wind despite camping in what I thought was a fairly shielded camping spot, but at least it wasn’t cold. Having already done a lot of miles for this stretch yesterday I was in no hurry as I Read more…

Day 37 Today I was going back to the trail for four days into the driest and hitherto most remote section of the trail. To my luck a bus was driving more or less directly from my hotel to the freeway where I got off trail since it was now Read more…

Day 36 I took another day here in Tehachapi, mostly as a means to delay the date I will arrive in Kennedy Meadows. I binged on the breakfast buffet at the hotel, and later went on a stroll through Tehachapi. Seems like a relaxed little village. The town museum was Read more…